German painter, printmaker and sculptor, naturalized American in 1948
and French in 1958. He was a major contributor to the theory and
practice of SURREALISM. His work challenged and disrupted what he
considered to be repressive aspects of European culture, in particular
Christian doctrine, conventional morality and the aesthetic codes of
Western academic art. Until the mid-1920s he was little known outside a
small circle of artists and writers in Cologne and Paris, but he became
increasingly successful from c. 1928 onwards. After 1945 he was
respected and honoured as a surviving representative of a ‘heroic’
generation of avant-garde artists.

The
Beautiful Season

The Entire City1935

The Eye of
Silence1943

Ubu
Imperator

The
Hat Makes the Man

Alice
in 1941

Le Limaçon de chambre
1920

The
Kiss

Cage, Forest and Black Sun
1927

The
Equivocal Woman (The Teetering Woman)1923

The
Clothing of the Bride1940

Forest and Dove
1927

L'Ange du foyer ou Le Triomphe du surréalisme
1937

Everyone Here Speaks Latin

Painting for
Young People1943

Eve, the
Only One Left to Us1925

Castor and
Pollution1923

The Word or Woman-Bird1921

Approacing Puberty or The Pleiads
1921

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